The Series continues the artist's recent project Notes On Apocalypse. This is a series on how inconspicuous the end of the world can be to those who master the art of overlooking war, injustice and destruction. Another issue raised in these works is the lack of time to think about the news, climate change or late stage capitalism among those who are engaged in cheap labour.

Obsession with the idea of the end of the world often comes back to our collective consciousness throughout history. Technological progress that leads us another stage closer to that end is hardly something new either, especially in times of war and humanitarian crisis. Even if the machine uprising is not happening any time soon, there will always be another self-destructive mechanism we invent. 

This project is a reflection on the apocalypse that is endlessly arriving. Dagnini’s Apocalypse is made of today's anxieties and our astonishing skill at adapting to the most frightening of circumstances: fear of war, information overdose, technophobia and internet addiction, idleness and ecological denial.

The piece constitutes a woven reproduction of a controversial/infamous work by Théodore Géricault “The Raft of the Medusa”. The painting, which instigated a scandal in 1819, still dismays us today with its grim aesthetic and horrifying storyline of the wreck of frigate Meduse and its survivors. In fact, the image increasingly resonates with the current time and its events of destruction, wars and catastrophes. 
The saying “Business as usual” embroidered over the woven surface is not an attempt to perceive the frightening through an ironic lens. It is more a statement of fact – no matter how awful the events are, the world as we built it continues functioning.

Writing of the large scale beads embroidery is of the usual meme font. And the woven texture of tapestry resembles a pixelated image of low quality downloaded from the internet. Memes ceased to be solely a comical form a long time ago. During the covid period, the meme making process became a kind of tool of coping with reality. Today, a meme is more often a form of social commentary than an attempt to garner a cheap laugh (or both at the same time).